Oakland Tribune opens downtown community newsroom

I was pleased Thursday evening to attend a reception to celebrate the opening of the Oakland Tribune’s downtown community newsroom. My schedule won’t permit me to finish a full blog post until possibly this weekend. But I wanted to note the event here now. Update: Here’s the full post on the Tribune’s return to downtown Oakland.

During the same week I read about this downtown community newsroom and the NewsVroom mobile newsroom, I found hands-on engagement similarly highlighted in the American Libraries magazine that arrived by mail. The two professions of librarianship and journalism very naturally intersect in promoting engaged and responsible citizens.